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It’s been a bit over 24 hours since I set up Pi-Hole on the $3.50 Raspberry Pi 3B and I have learned some interesting things. The first thing I learned was how much unwanted activity was happening on certain devices on my home network. Over the past day, devices, computers and phones attached to my […]

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Currently in the Eyeholes:

So I was poking around the Phomemo M02 thermal printer’s capabilities, and while I’ve run into limitations on printing long text documents and panoramas (just exactly the sort of thing you’d *want* to print on roll paper) via the “Notes” function in Phomemo’s App, I wondered what the limitations would be on printing PDF documents […]

GJK has also sent the Tape Pals Omega XL cassette on its way to Gregory S with his contributions, so *that* one is another step closer, and moving very briskly. I have no idea what I’ll put on it when it gets back to me, but I am invariably inspired by what the other two […]

Currently in the Eyeholes: Honestly, if you’re a Sherlock Holmes fan and you haven’t seen Bill Pullman‘s take on Holmes and Ben Stiller’s take on Watson, you’re seriously missing out. (:

The new Executive Order defining only two sexes based on gender at conception (and ignoring the 1.7% of the population born Intersex – who knows what they are now): https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/ The NIH definition of gender at conception: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK222286/ “During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the […]

Weapon of Choice: “Ghost Chocolate” 1957 Olympia SM3 #998587

Weapon of Choice: 1986 Canon Typestar 4 #Q12013213

Now that’s a Mail Spread right there! Gunier’s new Thermal Print Camera is getting a workout. (: Ooh, some new super-flexi dip pen nibs! Gunier includes a postage stamp, which will have to wait until his next letter to be used, as I’m gonna be sending a box this time. He’s also got a new […]

Kristy sent a panel of my very favorite discontinued stamps, so she’s covered for the next 4 letters, fortunately I plan to get to the post office today or Monday, so the rest of the un-stamped mail will go out then. (: Currently in the Eyeholes: I’ve also started moving some of my favorite music […]

A delightful surprise in the mail for my birthday! :D It’s the Tape Pals Omega XL package, back from its round trip through Correspondents Gunier and Gregory! Lots of fun includes in the box. The TINY THINGS collection so far – A Mother Mary, a tiny Scrying Orb and an Acacia Stenophylla seed. The things […]

Campos missed out on typing on the card enclosed in this envelope. I shall have to rectify that and send it on to someone else… Currently in the Eyeholes: Wow, real momma’s boy, creepily so. Started drinking himself to death as soon as his best book was published. Very Catholic, I guess. He does describe […]

This might be the first time anyone has thought of making a ‘zine in Rolodex format! I can’t find any mentions of it being done before, so who knows? In any case, it’s done now, and you can make your own copies to put in your Rolodex and send to your Correspondents! 1) Download the […]

It all started after staring at my test “Jimbo Ziglet” 4-Panel Rolodex card and thinking about how many pages of thinner paper I could fit in that little matchbook and still have it work in a Rolodex. Prolly too small to be useful as a notebook, but you could make a ‘Zine out of it. […]

So, I got a couple new comments on my post about the 1949 “Friends” book I found at Deseret a couple years ago, which made me ponder how useful it would be if I could make a Rolodex card that could hold more information than is usual for what you can type on a standard […]

In Conclusion: You don’t want to do your job, then you either QUIT, or I stop paying you. That’s the way this works. Ever-increasing prices for ever-decreasing service is not the way to encourage people to save your dying dinosaur ass. ): Oh, and if you *do* like the USPS and think I’m being harsh, […]

Currently in the Eyeholes:

Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Prolly Not Human Bones… A selection of home-made marble printed Rolodex cards for my Rolodex. Apparently my Correspondents are catching on to the Rolodex vibe for keeping track of their own Correspondence. :D Consider myself braced! (: a Two-Ouncer! Lotta pages to this story. (: KT’s Royal 5, her Weapon […]

Oh, and don’t think for a moment that I missed the Gutenberg Vertical Screw Travelling press stamp above. Funny, I just watched a “The Day The Universe Changed” highlighting the invention of just that press :D Postcards for EVERYONE! It’s the Gift that Keeps on Giving!

Got a letter from Bill G last night, and he’s now on Episode 20! I have already answered it, and managed to trick myself into making it a 100% thermally-typed letter, pasted up onto the Episode sheet. It’s kind of fun – I may do this for all my December Letters, just to switch it […]

Below, more Thermal Paper tests, including the Phomemo’s “micro print” feature. 52 or so characters across 2 1/4″ is not bad at all. Pretty readable, too! Currently in the Eyeholes: I saw this film in an elementary school gymnasium back in the mid-70’s, and the “Me and My Arrow” song has lived rent-free in my […]

May 25, 2000 – I had my first digital camera, a 1996 Canon Powershot 600, and a hankerin’ to experiment. So I took the camera and a tripod out to the backyard of The Monastery and set up for a panorama. Carefully rotating the camera around in a 360 circle and using the self-timer to […]